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If the temperature is at low or close to mid 30s, I like it humid. If the temperature is high 30s or low 40s then I like it dry but I hate these temperatures in all cases but low and middle 30s are enjoyable in all and most cases respectively. My city gets mid 40s with very high humidity which is chocking.
One of the problems with dry heat in my area is that it is sometimes accompanied by strong northwesterly wind that feels like a hair dryer and desiccates everything. Dry heat in general and in all places stays inside my body for a long time and my body takes few hours to cool down. In humid heat I cool down quickly once I get to a cool place or in water and any wind feels pleasant. I like humid heat in general but here in eastern Arabian Peninsula it's just too extreme and choking. No place on earth can rival the summer humidity of the eastern coast of Arabian Peninsula except the southern coasts of Red Sea and northern Somalian coast.
One of the problems with dry heat in my area is that it is sometimes accompanied by strong northwesterly wind that feels like a hair dryer and desiccates everything. Dry heat in general and in all places stays inside my body for a long time and my body takes few hours to cool down. In humid heat I cool down quickly once I get to a cool place or in water and any wind feels pleasant. I like humid heat in general but here in eastern Arabian Peninsula it's just too extreme and choking. No place on earth can rival the summer humidity of the eastern coast of Arabian Peninsula except the southern coasts of Red Sea and northern Somalian coast.
Yes, that area has one of the most brutal climates I can imagine. A hot desert climate with extremely humid summers. Just seems unfair.
Dry heat is better. I lived in Palm Springs/Palm Desert. Granted it was decades ago, but I do remember it being nice in the shade. People walked around with umbrellas and, it was pleasant @ night. People also had carpeted dashboards in cars as, the heat could crack it, when absorbing the sunlight. Been back in NYC for the past 20 plus years and, the heat can be oppressive when it is humid as well. I'll take 110 in the desert over 85 with 85% humidity any day of the week!
Dry heat....can you say summertime in Las Vegas.
Now, that's some dry heat!
Summer Time in Vegas can be brutal! I was out there in early July a few years ago and, when you ventured outside of the Hotels/Casinos it was like you walked into an oven! Even @ nights it was brutal.
Still, having lived in NYC, Orlando and, Palm Springs, I'd take the dry heat always!
One of the problems with dry heat in my area is that it is sometimes accompanied by strong northwesterly wind that feels like a hair dryer and desiccates everything. Dry heat in general and in all places stays inside my body for a long time and my body takes few hours to cool down. In humid heat I cool down quickly once I get to a cool place or in water and any wind feels pleasant. I like humid heat in general but here in eastern Arabian Peninsula it's just too extreme and choking. No place on earth can rival the summer humidity of the eastern coast of Arabian Peninsula except the southern coasts of Red Sea and northern Somalian coast.
The humid heat that I enjoy is in tropical wet climates not in the merciless desert. I travelled to India in 2013 during the monsoon and it was joyful.
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Presumably you have ocean breezes in Miami as well as access to the cooling water and beaches... Try the Ohio River Valley where the air doesn't move and it's 110 heat index (temp in the high 90s, humidity in the high 90s, dew point in the high 70s). Now try that every day for 10 months out of the year. Now try doing any vigorous physical activity in that mess. Give me dry heat any day!
Miami's mean summer dewpoints are 73°F in June and 74°F in July&August. Ocean breeze isn't going to cut through that!
And the conditions you mentioned for the Ohio River Valley are heat waves, not the mean.
Paducah, KY; the Warmest city in the OHR, has a mean dewpoint of 66°F in June, 69°F in July and 67°F in August, and July averages 90°F/69°F there, compared to 91°F/77°F in Miami
Miami's mean summer dewpoints are 73°F in June and 74°F in July&August. Ocean breeze isn't going to cut through that!
And the conditions you mentioned for the Ohio River Valley are heat waves, not the mean.
Paducah, KY; the Warmest city in the OHR, has a mean dewpoint of 66°F in June, 69°F in July and 67°F in August, and July averages 90°F/69°F there, compared to 91°F/77°F in Miami
Miami is worse
I live in the Ohio River Valley. That's not "heat waves"; it's all summer long.
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I live in the Ohio River Valley. That's not "heat waves"; it's all summer long.
I mentioned the averages, actual data contradicts your anecdotes
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